Re: equivalent for C-style init: structname varname[] = {...} ?

[Francesco Potortì]

>>>> Having Octave barf on something on which Matlab barfs is a definite
>>>> plus.
>>>
>>>What, you mean like barf on "endif" and "endfor" and double quotes?
>>
>> I think that --traditional does it, doesn't it?
>
>No, that command-line argument only affects superficial cosmetic
>changes. There is "warning on Octave:matlab-incompatible", but note
>bug #36743:
>
>    https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36743

Thank you.  I miss a reference in the manual from --traditional to this
warning.  Unfortunately I do not have time to create a patch, but I'll
post a bug report.

>Also, we decided to allow arbitrary strings as struct field names, but
>warn about them:
>
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/f2b8f90052fd
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/808e4f13e220

This appears reasonable to me.

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